As the suffocating stench of blood and guts clogged (Y/N)’s nostrils, he realized now was not the time for a slow and steady retreat, and the man immediately turned on his heels and sprinted out of the room, leaving the rest of his classmates to their fate. As he sprinted down the empty halls of the seventh floor it didn’t take long for the second impact to hit, shacking the building even more than the previous attack. As the ground shook and rumbled from the event, (Y/N) lost his balance slightly, but his slow stumbling eventually returned to an all-out sprint, quickly making it to the emergency exit that was the stairs. He shot through the door without hesitation, quickly jumping down the stairs three at a time until he made it to the ground floor, but before he ran out of the G-Floor door, he thought, “the rain fell everywhere! What if there’s more of those… things behind this door?!? Where the fuck do, I even go!?! Is anywhere safe? Am I just fucked?!?!” His rapid thoughts filled with negativity brought a sense of intense panic and angst to his body, and because of this his heart began beating out of his chest, sweat drenched every part of his body, and his hands shook with a nervous intensity that he never felt before.

In all truth, he was terrified, shaking with the fear of death plastered on his mind, but even amidst this panicked sensation something in his core forced him to calm down, brining rational thoughts to his sporadic mind. “Ok, ok, let’s just take a moment to calm down. You can’t make logic decisions if you’re panicked” with that thought he began slowly taking in deep breaths, calming is heartrate and bringing steadiness to his hands. With his body and mind calm once more, he thought, “first lets peek out the door to see if there are any Demons present, and if not then we’ll go back home to figure other shit out, but if there are then we’ll come up with a different plan.” With the quick plan created, his still slightly shaking hand reached for the push bar to open the door, gently, and silently, pushing the door open just a sliver to allow him to see what was happening outside.

The main area of the School was completely void of human life, instead the beings that stalked and crawled across the floor were anything but human. There features were indescribably inhuman, fleshy rotten demonic entities like spiders and zombies appearing with the faces of people, but clearly not having any human qualities. The Demons walked aimlessly around the floor, slamming themselves into walls, furniture, and other random objects as they looked for their next meal, and it was clear that they were looking for a meal as (Y/N) saw the dismembered chewed up corpses of the security guards by the entrance.

Luckily for him, the Demons had finished their security guard meals and were looking for bigger and better things, leaving the entrance to the building completely vacant, giving him an opportunity to exit. As he noticed his opportunity, he silently closed the door once more and came up with a quick plan of escape, “the southern exit of the building is by far the closest way to my apartment, and its clearly open so we’ll sneak passed the Zombies to get to the doors. Once we’re outside, there’s no way of knowing what it’ll be like, it could be desolate, it could be filled with hordes of beasts, either way it’s a straight, open shot to the apartment. So, we’ll just have to run and hope for the best.” Once he completed creating his plan of escape, he said a silent prayer to no one in particular before slowly exiting the door and beginning his crouch walk towards the buildings southern exit.

He continued to take slow, quiet steps as he exited through the door, staying as oblivious of his surroundings as possible to avoid stopping for any reason, and his strategy worked perfectly. (Y/N) quickly went from the stairway door to the glass doors of the building, getting a fully detailed look at the corpses of the guards before he made his exit. The damage that had been done to each of them were different, some of their limbs were missing, faces were slashed asunder, and numerous other visceral injuries, but one thing remained the same with each of the corpses. Their chests had been ripped open and gouged out, and because of it they had no ribs, hearts, lungs, or anything else that may had occupied their chest cavities. Instead, all that was left was an empty husk of what was once a live person, normally a sight like this would leave someone staggered, or possibly even stunned, but (Y/N) remained calm and collected among the dead bodies.

After gendering at the bodies, a moment longer, figuring that the monsters had eaten their hearts, he turned his attention to the outdoors where much of the same was happening. The café’s, bookstores, convenience stops, and public seating areas were vacant of human life, but were filled with Demons of all shapes and sizes. Even right next to the door where that girl stopped him for the donations had succumbed to the nightmare, her corpse’s chest gaping open like the rest of them. But he remained calm, choosing to begin his sprint plan since it was by far his best option. The entire street was completely open, not a single hiding place in site, but the Demons wandered near the edges of the side-walks giving him the chance to run straight through the center and remain unharmed. So, (Y/N) reinforced his will one last time and silently exited through the shattered southern doors of the campus building, but after taking a single step outside he began a dead sprint towards his apartment building.

Just like a track runner is told not to look back because they’ll lose speed, (Y/N) didn’t even give a thought to looking in any direction but his destination, sprinting down the road with every ounce of strength he could manage, and as he got close to his building, he noticed that the Demons were vacant from the premises which he chalked up to good luck. The instant he reached door 115 he shoved the door open, entered his apartment, and slammed the door shut behind him. After taking a deep breath and walking to his bedroom, he quickly closed the door behind himself before sitting down heavily in his comfy gaming chair, taking a moment to rest before he was forced to move again. “The Demons aren’t around my apartment now, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t be soon.” This thought was the single realization that fueled the rest of his thinking for the rest of his first life.

Now within the comfort of his own home and the temporary safety that it brought, his mind moved with much better efficiency than it did previously, allowing him to come up with a bunch of different future plans at once. “Figuring out what is happening right now is not important, what is important is finding a way to survive. Staying in my shitty little apartment is a terrible idea since its defenses are severely limited and so are the food options, so if anything got in here, I’d more than likely be fucked. I guess really… if I stay by myself, I’ll be fucked either way, so the first thing I really need to do is find survivors.” That last thought irked him a bit, but he continued planning ahead, swallowing his pride for the sake of survival. “The three main things I need to live are defense, sustenance, and people, so wherever has these three things in abundance is where I’ll go. The only place that comes to mind is the Facility.” The Facility is a massive building on this university’s campus, it functions in so many different ways that giving it a name for any specific event was impossible. Thus, the students dubbed it The Facility although its official name was the Flash Center.

The Flash Center has a world class competitive pool with a football stadium right next door and were connected to a massive expansive mall with a huge food court, and the building even had multiple sections dedicated to office spaces and other things of that nature. Connecting directly to all of this was a massive 10-floor parking garage that held every car of any person who wished to explore the campus and because of its popularity the location was always full. Basically, if anyone was going to be alive anywhere, it would be in the Facility. “And as a plus it’s not far from here, so traveling amongst the Demons shouldn’t be much of an issue. Perfect! I’ll just grab whatever clothes I might need, maybe take the switch for some entertainment, and then figure out shit from there.” Once his plan was completed, he made to get up and grab a duffle bag to begin filling with important objects, but suddenly everything felt completely wrong.

The deathly feeling of eyes beaming on the back of his neck and the tingly sensation of warm breath brushing up against his ear suddenly dawned on him. The feeling shook him too his core, sending a massive shot of adrenaline through his veins, bringing his heartrate up to a thousand before (Y/N) quickly shot his head around to discover the cause of his distress. But when he turned to face the perpetrator, nothing was there, just his usual room. “Wait, what the fuck is this?” Upon closer inspection, he noticed a long red streak of a wispy, wind like substance trailing from directly behind his chair all the way outside his bedroom door. When he attempted to touch the red wisp, his hand was able to physically move and alter the airy substance, but when he attempted to grab it, the wisp simply disappeared in his hand. It felt… odd, and something about the long trail of this red wisp brought an extremely eerie feeling to the core of his being.

However, the room only had a single exit, and the window was blocked off behind his desk, so his only real option was to check what the red streak led to. (Y/N) slowly got up from his chair, quietly standing on both of his feet, and immediately began searching for any object to use as a weapon, but as he looked over to his desk for a weapon, he noticed something terrifyingly sinister. The window that formerly allowed lots of red light to shine through the cracked blinds was completely black as if a massive shadow had suddenly overtaken the light, and peering through those same blinds were two slitted, blood-crimson reptilian eyes that glew brightly in the shadow. The instant (Y/N)’s eyes met them, fear shot through his system and his adrenaline levels rapidly rose to unhealthy levels, and in that moment only a single thought entered his mind, “RUN!!!”

(Y/N) immediately turned to run, taking a single large step towards the door, but somehow, someway, a being unlike anything he had ever seen suddenly appeared in front of him, and the moment he entered into the beings presence his life was forfeit. "Huh?" was all that he could muster as he stared into the hollowed out, blackened eye holes of the Demon that stood far taller than himself. The being that stood towering over (Y/N) with its bulbous head scraping against the ceiling was the complete embodiment of the word malice and just by being in its aura could stop the hearts of hundreds of humans, but somehow this man managed to not die instantly upon standing so close to this Demon. The word Demon itself was not nearly enough to describe this malicious entity, for the thing that came to end (Y/N)’s existence was far above any lowly Demon outside, it was the true Devil. (Y/N) could not breathe, he could not move, he could not blink, he could not think, nor could he feel. Every single one of his bodily functions stopped the instant that the Devil appeared, the only thing that kept him alive in that moment was the Will that he had built up since the classroom incident. The Devil’s physique was the manifestation of a warriors perfection, a wet dream of anyone who wished they could embody fear, strength, power, and immortality. Its body was chiseled like a Greek god, covered head to toe in rippling muscles that were covered by skin like black armor that looked harder than any metal on this planet.

The Devil looked as though he had been through and, single handedly won, every single battle that had ever taken place, EVER. It was impossible to tell where the armor ended and the Demon began, because it looked as if the Devil had been completely fused with its armor or the armor had fused with it. In addition to its already more than imposing frame, plastered in its right hand was a long, demonic katana with a red hilt, and as the Devil gripped his blade it looked as if his hand couldn’t leave its hilt. The blade was so long that even from the Devil’s position from the door, the elongated sword was more than capable of stabbing directly through (Y/N)’s chest. fused with his inhuman stature was a single blade connected to his right hand. But more terrifying than all of these factors combined was the Devil’s sinister face, more specifically the lack of lips and rotting teeth that spread wide to form a maniacal smile. A smile that spoke the most impactful phrase anyone who had seen this smile would ever know, 'YOU'RE FUCKED’

Time fell still for (Y/N) and he felt as if he had starred into the depths of the Devil’s hallowed eyes for an eternity but breaking that feeling of eternity was the mechanical movement that the being before him started making. The Devil began robotically raising his sword towards the sky, the maniacal grin on its mangled face widening ever so slight as it did so. The Devils widening gap of a mouth slowly began forming words and booming from the beings mouth came a deep rumble that shook the very foundation of the building he was in. "EnO eHt Si eH." In a tongue that (Y/N)’s brain couldn’t even register the Devil spoke, vibrating the air and his surroundings in the process. After saying the first phrase, the Devils blade had cut deeply into the floor above them, allowing the Devil to hold its blade perfectly straight up before lowering it yet again. The Devil brought its katana down in a perfect arc, stopping the tip of its blade directly at the center of its target’s forehead, drawing only a bead of blood. The Devil stared down the human and spoke its final words. "MIH LLIK!"

The instant the Devil’s words echoed through the room an unbelievable force suddenly erupted through the apartment building as a beast smashed through (Y/N)’s apartment window, shattering the glass desk and everything that was on it as the beast entered. The behemoths massive jaws were opened incredibly wide, spanning from the floor to the ceiling of the apartment and revealed rows of razor sharp, dagger like teeth that slashed through everything they touched. Emanating from the beasts jaws was a burning swell of scalded heat, instantly turning the room into a blazing oven just from parting its maw, but at the speed that the beast approached left no time for (Y/N) to even reaction to its presence. And in moments the superheated maw of the beasts enveloped (Y/N)’s body cooking his skin burnt and he felt as the teeth stabbed into his body, splitting his form in half, viscously tearing through him like wet paper, and brutally ending the life of this special Human.

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Earth. The bright blue orb of life that held the mass of the knowledgeable humans inside of its warm bosom continued its revolution, showing it’s gorgeous face unto the Sun yet again. With the face of the Sun came its direct gaze of loving warmth that was sure to bring joy to the Earth’s inhabitants yet again, bringing sunlight to those formerly in the darkness, and bringing them one step closer towards the future. Among these incredibly knowledgeable inhabitants, only one was truly taking leap towards their destiny, but that leap began with the shock of death. The glowing sun rose over the horizon, greeting the Earth’s revived inhabitant the same way it always did and would no longer, shinning it’s blinding light into the rapidly shifting eyes of this dreaming man. The Sun’s rays shot expeditiously through the blinds of the once dead special human’s apartment, contaminating the room with its bright presence, and revealing the state of ware that he lived in. However, the rise-and-shine properties of the Sun’s gaze were ineffective on this particular individual, and as such he was allowed a few more minutes of unconscious turmoil before he was forcefully awoken from his nightmare.

Beeeeeeeep

A single annoying beep and buzz from the device on his bedside table was all it took to rouse him from his torturous nightmare, and the man immediately moved to turn off the disruptive device with a single swift movement. “FUCK!” (Y/N) suddenly shot up out his bed, covered in a layer of slick sweat, causing his blanket to stick to his shoulders and back even as he rose. Visions of the coming of the Armageddon created sky, Titan eviscerating his classmates, hundreds of corpses with their chests torn asunder, the Devil that appeared in his home, and the jaws of the beast that cooked him alive were playing on repeat inside his head. “What the fuck just happened?” He asked an invisible entity, taking in deep breaths to calm himself down and allow his brain to start working properly. As he breathed, (Y/N) was able to slowly regain his composure, choosing to lay back down on his bed for a moment of comfort before his brain got to work.

After using both of his hands to wipe the slick sweat from his face, he began contemplating his current situation, taking a moment to feel around his body for any changes. “Was that a dream? No, it can’t be, that felt way to real to just be a dream.” He looked around the room, closely examining the space to find the answer to his inquiry. As he gendered at his colorful room, he immediately noticed the numerous postures, wall scrolls, and banners that covered not only his walls but also his ceiling as well. The Sun’s rays showed through his partially closed blinds at just the right angle to perfectly illuminate his entire bedroom, allowing him to gaze suspiciously at the seemingly hundreds of nerdish memorabilia that littered his place of residence. As (Y/N) looked to his right, he saw his spotless glass desk that had two identical lit 27inch monitors sitting atop it, and in front of the left monitor sat a glowing, rainbow-colored keyboard, accompanied by an equally glowing mouse.

Seeing that everything seemed entirely normal, he pushed his (F/C) chair away from his desk allowing him to take a look at the illuminated screens that were still on from what should’ve been the night before. “It’s still Guilty Gear” he thought to himself, slowly removing the blanket from his body before silently stalking his way over to the suspicious window. Unafraid, (Y/N) took silent steps towards his blinded window, peering through the blinds as he checked to see if the beast that had killed him before was still here, but instead of seeing red reptilian eyes, all he saw was a bright sun, a few pedestrians that looked to be students, and the other buildings that surrounded his apartment. “Normal” he thought, bending down to turn off his PC, and as he looked around his room, he thought to himself, “where the fuck did, I throw my phone?"

After the thought, (Y/N)’s body naturally moved to complete his morning routine, but his mind wouldn’t stop thinking about the surreal dream that he just had. “Everything in my room is exactly the same as it was in the dream that I had, but then again, it’s not exactly like I leave my PC on playing many different games than Guilty Gear. But even still, that shit felt way too real to just be a dream” as he finished that thought, he remembered the suffocating scent of blood, the sound of a crumbling building, the feeling of a sword piercing his forehead, and the burning sensation of the beasts hot breath accompanied by its teeth tearing him to shreds. Remembering it made him shiver slightly, but after he entered the bathroom and seeing himself and his body, he thought, “nothing on my body changed either. No scars or burn marks, although I think my skin might look a bit clearer, but that could be nothing. There’s just no way to tell right now, maybe I should just try to continue my day like I did before and see if anything is different.”

With that thought, he turned on the sink and did the same with the hot water in his shower, continuing his morning routine exactly as usual, and once he made it back to his room after the shower he walked to his closet and found his phone underneath the same T-shirt as before. “What show is this even from” he thought, looking at the images of the different colored girls on the front. “It’s not that important I guess” tossing the T-shirt to the side to continue his routine on schedule. After getting dressed and grabbing the things he needed for class, (Y/N) confidently stepped out of his apartment and walked towards his classroom, keeping a keen eye on all of his surroundings as he did so.

The Sun beamed down on (Y/N) as he walked along the brick pathway that led up to his massive school building, watching with a sense of Déjà vu as he took note of the numerous partners and groups joyfully talking, smiling, and laughing with one another as they did whatever they were doing. They appeared to be incredibly happy in ignorant bliss, basking in the light of the Sun that was soon to depart, freely traveling wherever they wished to be before the Demons restricted that, and speaking with one another in large groups of accepting individuals that were soon to be dead. As he walked, he began mulling over the experience that he had yesterday/last night, remembering all that had taken place leading up to the Armageddon. Once the memories began flooding back to him with unusual perfection, he could easily remember every minute detail of his dream and because of it he could easily tell that everything was occurring nearly exactly the same as it did in his dream. As his thoughts filled with the possibilities of the monstrosities that might soon arrive, he was stopped in his tracks by a blonde woman standing by the entrance to the building.

“ Hello! My name is Jessica, and I was asking if I could speak with you for a moment?” The instant (Y/N) heard the woman ask the same question that she asked him in his previous go around everything clicked in his mind and he realized that whatever occurred in his ‘dream’ was really going to be happened, but even then, the immediate shock from the realization over-took him slightly. “Excuse me, are you alright?”

“Huh?” He suddenly came too, seeing Jessica trying to get his attention and make sure there wasn’t anything wrong with him. “Oh yeah I’m alright, nothin to worry about.” He waved off the issue, choosing not to bring to light everything that was soon to happen on earth. “Uhh so what were you talking about, some kind of donation or something?”

Jessica was slightly startled for a moment, “did I talk about the donation already? I don’t know I’ve been told I’m kind of a ditz” she said with a smile, giggling a bit as she spoke. “Well, basically, me and my friends are collecting donations from people to help fund a funeral for one of the Professors that passed away this weekend. It’s a bit complicated as to why all this is going down, but if you really wanna hear about it I can let you know!”

After thinking about her proposition for a moment he said “no that’s fine, I’d like to help you guys out, but I don’t have any cash on me. Can I cash app you or something?”

Jessica’s face lit up at the proposition, “of course! I promise that all your proceeds will go to the cause, my cash code is…” after getting the woman cash app, he chose to send over a thousand dollars figuring that he wasn’t going to need money anyway.

“Oh my god! Like, are you sure? This is a lot of money! Aren’t you a student here or something? There’s no way you could be this well off, no offense obviously, but like seriously, are you sure?”

When the joyful girl asked him the question a dreary thought suddenly came to his mind, “I’m the only one who knows this thing is coming. Jessica thinks that this money has value simply because she doesn’t know that she may pass away within the next couple hours.” The thought hurt his heart slightly, receiving all this praise from this girl even though he didn’t necessarily deserve it, and keeping the information about the worlds destruction from her which essentially just sealed her fate. “But what am I supposed to do, it’s not like I can somehow save everyone just by telling them, and it’s not like people are gonna believe me anyway.” In that moment, against everything that he believed and against all that his heart was telling him, he chose to put on a smile and say, “No its really coo, I’d love to help out anyway I can. Just, make sure not to stay outside for too long Jessica, it’s kinda hot today so you may wanna go inside to take a couple breaks.”

“Thanks for the advice and thank you so much for the money! I’ll definitely take a bunch of breaks, especially since with this we’ve pretty much reached our goal! Do you mind me asking what your name is? I’d love to talk later… maybe we could get coffee or something like that sometime?”

“Uhm, sure, my name is (Y/N), it’s nice to meet you, Jess. My number is…” after giving the blonde girl his number really quickly, he went through the buildings glass doors, gave his ID to the security team, and walked up to his classroom, swiping his card against the door to enter the room full of students. The instant he walked in a sudden thought crossed his mind, “if this place is gonna get destroyed, then why the fuck am I here?”

But, before he could act on the thought, he was broken out of his mind by the professor’s booming voice, “Sir, Mister uhhhhhh… let me see here…. ah (L/N)! You are quite a bit late young man; do you mind explaining to the class what made you so tardy on this fine morning?” The instant the professor spoke up, the entire class turned their attentions to him, curious as to who the teacher was putting the spotlight on.

(Y/N)’s eyes rolled into the back of his head as he heard the professors comment, “I was talking to a nice lady down at the southern entrance and I got caught up in the conversation, sorry for being late.”

The professor smiled and said, “oh, it seems you were, uhh, ‘spitting some game’ as you young folks say. That’s just fine, just try not to do it again, and please don’t hold up the rest of our class and head to your seat Mr. (L/N).” After giving it a moment, (Y/N) didn’t take a single step towards his seat and instead walked back towards the rooms exit, much to the chagrin of the professor. “Young man, where do you plan on going? Class just began and you were already late, don’t you think it a little bit disrespectful to simply leave at the begging of my lecture?”

The man took in a deep breath to calm himself down, “I’m going to the bathroom.”

“You’re telling me that you are going to the bathroom at the beginning of my class. Not only that, but you are also going to take all of your belongings with you?” The professor exclaimed with a chuckle, raising his arms in mock skepticism at the actions of his student.

“Uhm… Yeah” The murmurs of the student body quickly turned into a mass of giggles and chuckles, and the professor even joined in on the laughter. The only person in the room who wasn’t laughing was (Y/N) himself and this was made even more evident by the teachers next comment.

“Alright, alright class settle down class, it seems we have a future comedian in the room. Ok funny man, sit on down back in your seat. We’ll have a 10-minute break sometime in the middle of our lecture, you can go do whatever you were going to do in the bathroom at that time.” Laughing heavily at his own joke, he motioned (Y/N) back to his seat with a finger disrespectfully.

The calming breath didn’t work as well as it did the first time, and he glared slightly at the older man before saying, “you’ll be dead by the break.” The room went from noisy to silent in an instant, no one moving a single inch as they heard the matter-of-fact statement that permeated from the lips of the formerly quiet kid. Without wasting a moment, (Y/N) walked out the door, heading downstairs to the lobby, and walked out the southern entrance of the building. Once he took a single step out into the sunlight, he noticed that Jessica and her friends had left their stand, presumably going somewhere much safer than outside, which gave him a warm feeling in his chest. “Now’s the time to execute the plan I thought of yesterday/ in my dream, if the Devil somehow showed up at my apartment, then it’s probably best that I avoid that building. Instead, I’ll just head straight for the Facility and hunker down there until further notice.”

As (Y/N) lightly jogged through the walkways and paths that led to the massive complex, he quickly came upon the main street that separated the Flash Center from the part of the campus that he lived in, and the side-walk was completely packed with people. The traffic was intense, but he quickly lightly pushed his way to the cross-walk, intent on waiting for the light to allow him to cross. As he was waiting, he took notice of how bright it still wat, but even though it was bright outside he looked up to check for the progression of the breaking sky and what he saw was a slowly forming crack. Feeling pressed for time, (Y/N) sprinted across the street, undeterred by horns and screeching tires, running directly into the massive parking garage that was connected to the entirety of the greater complex.

The garage had three different exits on the base floor, all of them leading into various sections of the Flash Center. The exit on the far east side of the building it led into the massive football stadium, but it was only accessible by students at certain times of the day and right now was not that time. On the north side of the building was the entrance to the world-class competitive swimming pool and this area was accessible to the greater public as long as they had a pass, luckily students got in for free. The west side exit lead into more faculty style offices, some gyms and more training areas, but this area was more or less restricted to everyone except for those that worked there.

“The only area that I’m able to access with my student ID is the pool area, plus it’s the fastest way to get to the mall area anyway. So, the pool it is.” (Y/N), still jogging, made his way up to the entrance of the swimming building and with a swipe of his ID the door switched from red to green barring him entrance in the safe haven. “Safe at last” he thought, letting out a breath he didn’t even know he was holding in.

Upon entering the building, the hot, sticky, humid air choked him slightly, sticking his clothes to his body and creating an incredibly uncomfortable sensation. However, the feeling was infinitely better than being outdoors amidst the hell spawn, so he just gritted his teeth and bared the feeling as he located the entrance to the mall he was looking for.

The room was filled to the brim with students, parents, and children alike, all enjoying the freshness of the cool water on the hot day. The pool itself was filled with people laughing and splashing one another with the cool substance, and there were tons of adults quietly chatting poolside with one another. It a very lively vibe, only made more terrifying by the fact that this liveliness would be ending soon, but unfortunately, or fortunately, for them they had no idea what was on the horizon.

(Y/N) quickly made his way through the crowd of people, trying his best not to be rude as he gently pushed people out of the way to make it to his destination. He swam quickly through the crowd of lively people until he eventually reached the pools exit, and mall entrance, on the west side of the room. As he came to a stop in front of the large glass double doors, his attention was overtaken by the reflection of red light that shined through and off of the glass door. Turning around, he saw an incredibly familiar red light that was beginning to shine in through the glass ceiling of the pool room. The fractures began littering the sky and in doing so it left the Sun’s rays completely vacant from earth, leaving the people to watch in awe at the beginning of the end.

Everyone in the room turned their attention to the supernatural occurrence that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. Various ‘oohs’ and ‘aahhs’ could be heard echoing throughout the pool tile walls of the room, reverberating the sounds of ignorant individuals who were soon to be slaughtered. There were even some parents covering their kids’ eyes because ‘looking at an eclipse with your bare eyes is bad for your eyesight’ and while all everyone’s attention was focused on the ceiling, (Y/N) opened the exit and sprinted through the door. He ran straight into the mall of the Flash Center, however as he looked up towards the sky, he saw a sight that frightened him to his core.

“This place is like every other damn mall! All of the ceilings are made of glass! How the fuck did I forget that the ceilings were made of fucking glass!” As he cleared the thought from his mind, he continued running as he tried his best to think of a different, safer, location where his survival needs may have been met, but before he could truly come up with a plan of attack, a loud thudding sound began emanating from above. The sounds were like a thick liquid substance thudding against a hollow window, and almost immediately one thud became thousands as the mall became dark. The black tar pools that spawned demons began covering the entire surface of the malls ceiling, but the lack of light only lasted temporarily because soon after the pools formed, a much more horrifying occurrence began.

Rising and forming out of these tar pits came monsters, demons, ghouls, and any other name that could be used to describe a terrifying inhuman entity. Some were like the same rotting flesh zombies and humanoid spider demons that he saw in his dream, but others were completely different beasts entirely. Some were boney skeletons with rotting flesh hanging off them like ragged clothing, others were creatures with large mosquito wings on their backs with little infantile bodies, and vary few and far in between, were soldiers with rusted and tattered weapons, broken armor pieces with decayed faces. After a moment of quiet the legion of demons simultaneously began pounding against the glass with all of their strength, slashing with weapons, striking with fists, and banging with heads, creating a terrifying chore of demonic moans and the sound of destruction.

At first the building was silent except for the sounds of bashing, scratching, and screeching coming from the monsters from the glass roof, but once people were able to register the faces of the demons everything went south. People rapidly began to realize the gravity of the situation, and gradually everyone in the building went from happy and amused to scared and panicked, turning the gallery into horde of terror. At first it was as if no one wanted to recognize what was happening instead choosing to watch on while their dooms were slowly shattering the window above, but all it took was for one lady to scream before all hell broke loose.

The stampede began and people instantly started yelling and screaming their throats raw in an effort to somehow relieve themselves of the fear that they face, but even then, it only worked to fuel the fire. Everyone in the building collectively ran towards the one exit they knew of, the one that lead to the parking garage., the place where their cars were located. The crowd of people quickly became a tsunami of human bodies climbing on top of one another, hoping and pleading for a chance to survive a bit longer than the rest. Men, woman, and children were rapidly crushed under the immense pressure of hundreds of human feet hustling to get to their vehicles for an escape, causing a slip and slide of blood and guts as they ran with all their effort to their vehicles. But to make matters worse, amidst the rumbling stampede of morally devoid hysterical humans a single crack could be heard, somehow overpowering the sounds of thousands of people screaming at once. One crack quickly turned two, two cracks turned four, and four turned eight, and this process continued unbeknownst to the entirety of the stampede who didn’t notice until it was too late.

CRRRAAAASSSHHHH

Suddenly the entire glass ceiling fell through, raining foul creatures and deadly shards of glass on to the masses. The falling glass itself claimed many, many lives as they stabbed through the unsuspecting victims below, but it was truly only the beginning of the slaughter. If the screaming could have gotten any louder, it would have done so, but in the panic of their escape attempt none noticed as these monstrous atrocities were upon them, instantly beginning to cull through the tsunami of bodies, creating waves of blood with every clash. Even the ones who remained in the pool weren’t safe and soon the formerly blue water ran a deep red, and the walls were stained with those same bloody hues.

“I knew the glass wasn’t gonna hold!” (Y/N) thought as he sprinted through the building looking for another quick exit. He watched with his mind’s eye as the legion of hellions began killing the people in mass, but as they fell through in his direction, he simply sprinted past them, feeling much faster than he was before. In fact, the demons didn’t even seem to be paying much attention to him, instead focusing on killing the stray humans that were in the various shops and the ones scattered through the halls. (Y/N) didn’t know much about the buildings various intricacies as far as entrances and exits go, but he did know that there was a parking lot that lead directly out to the main street. That parking lot was promoted a lot as a VIP, privileged parking area that allowed people who often visit, and pay top dollar, to park directly next to the mall for easier access.

He knew that it had to be in this general area, located somewhere in between the pool and the food court, but he didn’t know exactly where it was since he had never used it. “Damn special parking passes. Where the hell is the lot at.” As if the gods themselves had opened the way, as he was running down the hall, he found exactly what he was looking for. A small off shooting corridor that was perfectly perpendicular to the hallway he was running in, and it was fit with a red carpet like rug, a sign that read ‘VIP Flashers Only’ and a silver door that led out to the parking lot . “After exiting the mall we’ll run through the streets for a while, heading towards the other school buildings since it’s not very likely that another titan spawns right next to those ones as well.” With his plan swiftly created, he noticed the lack of Demons surrounding the hall that led outside and the feeling that it brought him was intensely eerie, but even then, this was his only real exit, so he ran down the VIP corridor towards the silver doors.

(Y/N) quickly shot down the hallway, feeling his steps padded with every carpeted step, and once he reached the silver doors, he immediately shot out of them with a small smirk, figuring that he had escaped the first onslaught of Demons yet again. However, the Devilish final obstacle appeared in his way once more, immediately stunning all thoughts from his mind and forcing his bodily functions to cease. Also, this time the armored Devil was not alone and instead he was sitting on the back of his fiery dragon mount that had ended (Y/N)’s life previously.

A massive beast that towered over (Y/N) glared down on him, standing on all fours at 10ft (3m) above the ground the animal was by far the most intimidating animalistic creature he had ever seen. While the beast’s head only lightly resembled anything on this planet, it had far more resemblance to the mythological legendary dragons that are created in fictional tales. It truly did have the head of a dragon; however, its body was like that of an oversized wolf, having four legs, a long swaying, muscular tail, and flaring fur that grew from parts of its form. The Behemoths dragon like head was huge and extending from its mouth were incredibly sharp, dagger like teeth that were easily multiple feet (meters) long in length. Also connected to each side of its skull were two slightly front facing reptilian slit eyes that glew with the intensity of a blazing inferno, and decorating its head were two spiraling horns that grew from the top of its head. The entirety of its body was covered in iron black scales that shinned in the red light of day, with its underbelly being plated in much larger grey scales that had super-heated steam rising from the gaps in between each scale. This gave its neck and undersides the appearance of being a ventilation unit that worked to release excess heat from the Behemoth’s body, and it clearly had a lot of excess heat. Steam poured from the gaps in its armory, filling the surrounding air in an intense musk of overwhelming heat, lightly burning the skin on (Y/N)’s body just from being in the beasts presence.

However, what terrified (Y/N) the most about this sudden encounter was the Devil who sat comfortably on the Behemoth’s back as if it was a simple pet or a mount, and once the Devil laid eyes on the target that trembled before him, a sinister grin widened across his non-existent, rotting lips. With the same katana that pierced his skin in his dream still fused to the Devil’s black, armored hand, the Behemoth before him opened its jaw slightly to let out a flaming ember of orange steam that instantly burnt (Y/N)’s face to an unholy degree.

Unlike the first time he faced the Devil, this time the man was able to formulate thoughts, and his mind immediately tried to calm itself down so he could come up with a solution to this problem “Fuck! What do I do! My body wont fuckin move!” (Y/N) thought as he stood before the Devil and the Cerberus, facing his inevitable death yet again. Before (Y/N) managed to do anything, the demonic figure began do the same motion the Devil did before ordering the Behemoth to kill him in his dream, slowly, tauntingly, raising its lone blade above its head, and into the air, grinning maliciously all the while. “No, fuck! I don’t know if I’ll have another life after this one, I don’t know if I’ll have another chance to escape this bastard! I have to run; I have to escape!” (Y/N) screamed in is mind, pleading with his body to resist the temptation of giving in to death.

"EnO eHt Si eH." The Devil rasped out, rumbling the air around them and exciting the Behemoth beneath it. The beast began drooling, its molten steel saliva melting into the concrete bellow as it listened to its master pronounce each unknown syllable with deathly reverberation, actively mocking, taunting, and disrespecting its victim knowing he could to nothing in return. The sword that was raised high was then steadily moved in a precise arc to face the center of his prays forehead, this time far to high up to cut (Y/N)’s skin, but it still felt as if the blade had sliced his forehead.

“I won’t let it end like this! Come on legs move, move, MOVE!!!” Summoning all the willpower he could from the depths of his soul, (Y/N) forced the unimaginable substance from his core, shooting it out all across his body to break free from the Devil’s bondage.

"MIH LLIK!" As the behemoth shot forward at the command from its master, a sudden (F/C) shockwave burst from its targets body, erupting from (Y/N)’s skin in a blinding light that illuminated their surroundings. The light was blinding, and the shockwave was forceful, but it did little to no damage to the Devil and his mount but stunning them both just long enough for (Y/N) to make his next move.

Wasting no time all, (Y/N) leaped back through the silver doors that he came from, sliding back into the corridor a top the red carpet in an awkward rolling motion. This quick movement allowed him to easily avoid the lunging mount who was far too large to fit through the small doors, getting its head stuck in the crushed concrete walls for its attempt. (Y/N) took a second to make sure the Behemoth was stuck before he quickly rolling back to his feet and turned towards the main mall hall as he took off sprinting with all his body would give him. The man’s feet started flying at speeds he had never felt before, not even giving him a moment to realize that he reached the end of the hallway almost instantly.

(Y/N) was shocked at how fast he ran across the carpet, but he quickly recovered from it and managed to adjust his eyes and mind to match the incredible speeds that his feet carried him at. The moment he entered the hallway, he slid across the floor, skidding his shoes across the polished tiles as he made an incredibly agile right turn towards the main pool and parking garage. “ Going back to the garage is my best bet right now, I gotta somehow make it into some tight spaces where he can’t follow me through. On a straight like this I’m sure he can catch up to me somehow and its only straight shots from here to any of the nearest exits. So, I need to get through the parking garage and somehow evade them through some alleyways till I can make it to a different safe space.” With that thought complete, he dashed down the hallway, taking only a moment to turn around and make sure that he wasn’t being followed.

At the same time, he thought, “at least that hallway is too small for him to go through, and the Behemoth has its head stuck in the doorway, those should buy me enough time to get down to the garage and make my way out.” As if on cue, the Devil and his mount suddenly appeared directly in the center of hallway, teleporting through the corridor and into the main hallway only leaving a long wispy red streak as proof that it happened at all. (Y/N) immediately recognized the wispy streak of red that trailed from the VIP parking lot to the mall’s hallway but looking at the streak now seemed much different than before. The streak seemed to glow like a light in the dark and he could clearly see it emanating from the Devil himself, and even as he turned back around to begin his sprint, he could still see everything. The Devil teleported himself and his mount directly into the building, bypassing the tiny corridor in its entirety, and on top of that the movement was completely silent.

Fear should’ve overcome the man as the 10-foot Behemoth and its demonic master suddenly appeared behind him, but even as he turned around to continue his sprint, he could still feel the exact location of the Devil behind himself. Matter of fact, all of his senses felt incredibly heightened, and he could clearly pinpoint the locations of everything surrounding him, including the immanent objects that littered the mall.

“What the fuck, he can Teleport!” (Y/N) thought as he continued sprinting towards his designated exit, trying his best to compile all of the sudden information that awakened in his body. He listened with enhanced hearing as concrete crushing claws dashed against the ground behind him, pounding against the tiled floor with every bound. The metallic claws crushed loudly against the floor creating deathly crumbling sounds, like a tank crushing gravel but much more destructive and numerous. The Behemoth sped down the hallway like a freight train, using all four of its muscular, concrete crushing paws to gain quickly on its designated target. All the while, the Devil on its back smiling wildly, sinisterly keeping its blade poised for (Y/N)’s head even amongst the intense movement of the speedy beast.

“I guess that explains how the Devil snuck into my apartment before, a silent teleportation that lets them bring something with it” He thought as he began forcing his will into his legs, trying his hardest to escape the coming demons. The situation was dire, the Behemoth was gaining fast, the stench of blood filled the air, and it seemed as if there was nowhere for (Y/N) to go as the Devil was going to claim his life once more. However, even amongst these extremely dire straits a small smirk began forming across (Y/N)’s lips as he ran and with this smile came a thought. “I feel like I should be afraid for my life right now, but for some reason…” the sprinting man stopped the thought to slowly take in a deep breath, noticing the new smell and taste of the air, “I feel fucking FANTASTIC!”

With each step his body lightened, with each breath his senses heightened, and with each thought his euphoria escalated! The thought that this beast could catch him slowly dissipated into afterthought as (Y/N) flew down the hallway at inhuman speeds, and the will that had been forced through every vein in his body created a high like no other. His senses rapidly heightened to insane levels and because of it he could ‘see’ exactly what happened as the Devil approached any of the other monstrosities. The instant anything got within a domain that surrounded the Devil, the souls of the fleshy creatures, that looked like small glowing orbs in their chests, were violently getting ripped from their chests and fused with the Devil behind him. The instant the glowing souls from the other beings fused with the Devil’s brightly growing soul, the Devil’s soul grew a little bit brighter and grew a tad bit larger as well, seemingly strengthening it slightly.

However, this event caused the monsters physical forms to quickly quiver and dissipate into nothingness, acting as if they had never existed in the first place. “I guess that explains why there are never any friendlies around him. I’d imagine the same thing happens to people as well.” He mentally shivered at the thought. “But that’s not important, first I have to make it to the garage!” (Y/N)’s energy rapidly increased, steadily increasing the distance between himself and the Devil’s mount as his legs burned faster and faster down the mall’s hallway. As the glass pool doors quickly approached, (Y/N) felt completely unstoppable. So, naturally, instead of stopping to rip the handle of the door and risk the Behemoth catching up last second, he decided to jump straight through the hard glass. “Alright. Let’s see how fast we can go!”

(Y/N)’s legs blurred into nothingness as he shot all of his will into his legs, and in what felt like an instant the space between him, and the door became negligent. He then prepped his legs with a small crouch and swiftly sprung 6 feet (2m) in the air, perfectly aligning himself with the center of the glass door. As his bodily flew in slow motion towards his ticket to freedom, he suddenly saw a streak of red appear in his field of vision. He sensed as the trail of red will traveled from the previous location of the Devil behind his, underneath his airborne body, and through the glass door in front of him.

Sitting with perfect posture ten feet (three meters) in the air on the other side on the glass exit was a smiling Devil and his ferocious mount, the Devil himself poised with his blade perfectly pointed at the head of the airborne (Y/N). In that instant the two enemies stared one another down, glaring daggers into each other’s eyes as they knew that the victor of this interaction would decide who would walk away from this exchange with their lives intact, and neither of them were willing to give the other a chance at victory. The Devil would no longer give chase and (Y/N) refused to run from anything anymore, the Devil in front of the will fueled human was going down today and (Y/N) was going to make sure of it.